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...came from a newspaper family. There was ink in my blood,” Lee says. But he decided that journalism made him feel “a little too much on the outside looking...
...tense silence falls over the room. Three hundred people sit motionless, eyes down, concentrating on the cards in front of them. Their felt-tipped pens hover over the numbers, ink cobras ready to strike. The air is thick with anticipation, or at least cigarette smoke. Then the man up onstage begins his ritual call: "One and two, 12. All the sixes, 66 ?" Suddenly, the place is alive with movement - hands zipping back and forth, dabbing at the cards with sniper-like precision. Everyone racing to be the first to fill a row, two rows or a full house. Racing...
Nevertheless, the Massachusetts legislature passed a bill to remove the synagogue panel a few years after its installation, only to repeal it soon later on constitutional grounds. With the reversal pending, an anonymous visitor splashed the image with ink, leaving Sargent the first to restore his own murals...
...president of Houghton Chemical—which produces industrial chemicals used in ink, photographic film and pharmaceuticals—said that the company’s location in Allston was integral to the company’s identity and added that he hopes Harvard won’t make them leave...
...August, Ismael Berasategui, a Basque terrorist wanted in connection with five car bombings and a political assassination, simply walked out of La Sante prison. His brother had visited him in prison; the two changed clothes and then rubbed hands together to transfer the ink that identifies visitors from one brother’s hand to the other. The terrorist brother then casually walked out of the prison, while the conspiring brother waited for a week before notifying the guards of his false incarceration. This was the fourth time in as many years that French prisoners have escaped by trading clothes...